House Removals Lewisham
Full house removals across the London Borough of Lewisham: intact Victorian family homes in Catford, Forest Hill, Hither Green and Brockley, converted terraces around SE13, and the larger period houses on the Blackheath edge. DBS-checked crews box it, unbolt it, carry it and put it back together at the other end.
A house removal in Lewisham is charged by the hour: £35 small van, £45 medium, £60 Luton, two-hour minimum, plus £12 an hour for a second helper. Packing is £25 an hour per packer and dismantling £30 per item. The first 15 miles are included and the price is locked in the app before you book.
Parking bay suspensions applied for with Lewisham Council in advance, cellars and long gardens costed at booking, town-centre exits chosen before loading starts, A21 Bromley and A20 Kent runs booked around the peaks. Every crew carries public liability and goods-in-transit cover starting at £10,000.
Services in Lewisham
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Flat and Conversion Removal
One and two-bed flats in Lewisham's split Victorian terraces around SE13 Ladywell, SE4 Crofton Park and SE6 Catford, handled by a medium van and a DBS-checked crew. Allow three to five hours once the communal staircase is factored in.
House Removal
Luton van for full houses: intact Victorian family homes with cellars, long gardens and original staircases in Catford, Forest Hill, Hither Green and Brockley. Add a helper at £12/hr, a third as an additional helper, and £30 for each piece stripped down and rebuilt.
Long-Distance Removal
Outbound on the A21 south through Catford for Bromley, Beckenham and the Kent commuter towns, or south east on the A20 past Sidcup and Swanley. Mileage is free for the first 15, then charged per mile and displayed before you confirm.
Packing Service
Packers arrive with cartons, tape, bubble wrap and hanging-rail boxes, sleeve the mirrors and pictures one at a time and write the destination room on every lid. Scope it to the whole house or just the kitchen and breakables. A pair working the previous afternoon leaves nothing but carrying for the morning.
Removals in Lewisham - What You Need to Know
House removals or man and van in Lewisham, and how many hours a full move takes
What separates the two services is volume, not mileage. Boxed up a one-bed conversion yourself and simply need it carried? A van and driver by the hour covers that. Emptying an entire Lewisham house is a different job, because the parts nobody counts at booking (the cellar, the loft hatch, the shed at the bottom of a long garden) are exactly the parts that eat the afternoon. For that you want a proper crew: a Luton at £60/hr, one helper at £12/hr, and a third person put on as an additional helper when the property justifies it. Planning guide for SE13 and the postcodes around it: reckon three to four hours door to door on a one-bed conversion flat near the town centre, four to five on a two-bed in Ladywell or Crofton Park, five to seven on a three-bed Victorian terrace in Hither Green or Catford, and a whole working day or two vans on an intact four or five-bed family house in Brockley or Forest Hill. Hand the boxing to packers at £25/hr each and add two to three hours, then £30 for every bed, wardrobe or table stripped down and rebuilt. Time is metered in quarter-hour blocks that both sides can see.
Cellars, long gardens and original features: what a Lewisham house actually holds
Lewisham's housing is overwhelmingly Victorian terrace and a great deal of it was carved into flats decades ago, but what makes the borough interesting for full removals is the stock that survived intact. Catford, Forest Hill, Hither Green and Brockley still hold whole streets of large Victorian family houses that were never converted: original staircases and cornicing, tiled front paths, stained glass in the front door, a cellar under the front room and a garden long enough to hide a shed, a greenhouse and twenty years of bicycles. That changes the shape of the day in three ways. A cellar is effectively an extra floor of accumulation and it is almost always underestimated when people book by bedroom count. A long garden means the final hour is mowers, pots, garden furniture and a shed to empty, which is a daylight job rather than a dusk one. And the original features are the thing you are protecting: cast-iron banisters, encaustic tiles and plaster mouldings mark far more easily than modern skirting, so the crew wraps the newel post and the turn on the half-landing before a single box moves. Tell us about the cellar and the garden when you book.
Where a Luton can legally stand for six hours in SE13, SE4 and SE23
One wardrobe can be walked from the end of the street. A whole household cannot, because that extra thirty metres gets repeated across sixty boxes and a day's worth of furniture, which is why the opening question on a Lewisham job is not the route but the kerb: where can a Luton sit legally from eight in the morning until mid-afternoon? Three answers usually apply. A bay suspension is the cleanest, obtained through Lewisham Council on a lead time measured in working days rather than hours, and it earns its cost on the permit-controlled Victorian streets inside the Brockley and Forest Hill conservation areas where every space has gone before the school run. Failing that, the crew picks the hour: the roundabout and one-way system by the shopping centre, fed by both the A20 and the A21, is the borough's standing bottleneck, so the way out is decided while the house is still full. Last resort is a relay, a small van running loads down to a Luton parked somewhere it is allowed to stay. Gradient is the Forest Hill and Honor Oak variable, and a steep road with a long flight of front steps is precisely where a £12/hr helper repays himself in saved hours.
The second move: why most Lewisham removals start and finish inside the borough
Lewisham is a first-time-buyer and young-family borough, and that produces a very particular removal pattern: the second move. People buy a flat in Brockley, Ladywell or Deptford, stay four or five years, then trade up to a house with a garden without leaving the area, usually pushing south or south east into Catford, Hither Green, Forest Hill or Sydenham where the same money buys another two bedrooms. Both ends sit inside SE, so road time is short and carrying time is long, which is why an extra pair of hands almost always beats a bigger van on these jobs. School terms shape the calendar and late July into August is the busiest window of the year. Beyond the borough the outbound corridors are consistent. The A21 runs south through Catford toward Bromley, Beckenham and on into Kent. The A20 heads south east past Sidcup and Swanley to the commuter towns behind it. A smaller stream crosses to the Blackheath and Lee border for larger period homes. Mileage runs free for the first 15 and then per mile, priced on screen before you confirm, and since evenings and weekends carry a 1.3x multiplier, the identical move booked on a Tuesday is the cheapest version of itself.
Lewisham postcodes we cover
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Reviews from Lewisham
“Four-bed Victorian house on a permit street, cellar packed floor to ceiling and a garden with a shed we had ignored for years. They had the bay suspension sorted a fortnight before, wrapped the banister and the tiled hall, and everything was rebuilt in Forest Hill by early evening.”
“Three-bed terrace, two packers the afternoon before and a Luton with a helper the next morning. Turning moving day into loading only was worth every penny. Beds and the dining table came apart and went back together, and the price never moved from what the app locked in.”
“Whole family house going out on the A21. They started at seven to get ahead of the town centre and still had the loft and the garden cleared before lunch. Told us the per-mile rate upfront so there were no surprises at the Bromley end.”
“Steep road, long flight of front steps and nowhere for a Luton within thirty metres. They shuttled with a small van, added a third pair of hands, and finished a five-bed inside the day. Not a scratch on the stained glass or the plaster.”
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Last updated August 2026.
Book a House Removal in Lewisham
Your total is frozen before anyone lifts a box. Packers, dismantling and rebuild bookable alongside the van. Bay suspensions applied for ahead of the day on the Brockley, Forest Hill and SE13 permit streets.
Medium van £45/hr · Luton £60/hr · Helper £12/hr · Packing £25/hr per packer · Dismantle £30 per item · 2-hour minimum